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This Early Childhood Education Attestation is a Continuing Education program designed for people interested in a career working with young children in a variety of childcare settings (daycare, pre-schools, extended day programs and home day cares). This competency-based Attestation is 1,200 hours in length and consists of 17 courses. Successful completion of the Attestation, combined with 3 years full-time work experience in a licensed childcare setting, will give the student the minimum requirements to work in the field, as per the regulations governing Child Care Centres in Québec.
 
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Early Childhood Education Program's Objective
 
The objective of this program is to enable a person to develop the skills required of an Early Childhood Educator of children from 0 to 12 years in order to be considered as trained for work in various daycare environments.
 
Early Childhood Education (E.C.E.) Competencies
 
The Early Childhood Education Attestation Program includes the following competencies:

0190: To examine the job functions of an educator
0191: To observe the children's behaviour
0192: To identify a child's needs with respect to his/her overall development
0193: To function safely in the work environment
0194: To establish an affective relationship with children
0195: To intervene with respect to a child's health
0197: To communicate in the workplace
019A: To provide support to a child
019B: To use creativity in a work context
019D: To design activities promoting overall child development
019E: To organize educational activities
019F: To lead educational activities
019J: To intervene with respect to the behaviour of a child or a group of children
FJ18: To write and summarize texts relating to the early childhood profession
 
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